1. ignōtus — Lewis & Short
ignōtus, a, um,
Part., from ignosco.The corpus record — Latin
ignotus
ignotus
Part., from ignosco
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Where it lives
- Ausonius 1 · 69.44/10k
- Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
- De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
- De Vita Iulii Agricolae 4 · 5.93/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
- Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
- De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
- Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
- De Consolatione ad Helviam 3 · 4.43/10k
- Hercules 3 · 3.94/10k
Densest 12 of 145 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. ignōtus — Lewis & Short
ignōtus, a, um, adj.in-gnotus, notus.
I Pass., unknown.
A In gen.:
quamquam ad ignotum arbitrum me appellis: si adhibebit fidem, Etsi est ignotus, notus: si non, notus ignotissimus est,Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 104 sq.:
dubitabitis, judices, quin ab hoc ignotissimo Phryge nobilissimum civem vindicetis?Cic. Fl. 17, 40:
ignoti homines et repentini quaestores celeriter facti sunt,id. Brut. 64, 242:
homo ignotus et novus,id. Rep. 1, 1:
nos pluribus ignotissimi gentibus,id. ib. 1, 17:
longinqua eoque ignotior gens,Liv. 5, 32, 5:
procedam in aciem adversus ignotos inter se ignorantesque,Liv. 21, 43, 18; cf.
§ 13: omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte,Hor. C. 4, 9, 27:
jus applicationis obscurum sane et ignotum patefactum atque illustratum est,Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 177:
obscurioribus et ignotioribus verbis,Quint. 7, 3, 13; cf. id. 8, 3, 73; 8, 6, 74:
haec nova et ignota ratio,Cic. Rep. 1, 16:
alter (dies) in vulgus ignotus,id. Att. 9, 5, 2:
ille tibi non ignotus cursus animi mei,id. ib. 5, 15, 1:
terrae,unknown, distant, Tib. 1, 3, 3; ib. 39; cf.: nobilis ignoto diffusus consule Bacchus, unknown, remote with respect to time, i. e. old, Luc. 4, 379.—Subst.: ignō-tum, i, n., that which is unknown.—
Prov.: ignoti nulla cupido,Ov. A. A. 3, 397.—
B In partic., pregn. (for ignobilis, II.), of low birth or condition, lowborn, base, vulgar (poet.):
quo patre sit natus, num ignota matre inhonestus,Hor. S. 1, 6, 36; cf.:
naso suspendis adunco Ignotos, ut me libertino patre natum,id. ib. 6 and 24:
Achivi,the ignoble Greeks, Ov. M. 12, 600:
progenuit tellus ignoto nomine Ligdum,id. ib. 9, 670:
ignotis perierunt mortibus illi,Hor. S. 1, 3, 108.—
II Act. (cf. the Gr. a)/gnwstos), unacquainted with a thing, ignorant of (very rare for ignarus, insciens, inscitus): ignotae iteris sumus, Naev. ap. Non. 124, 28:
simulacra ignotis nota faciebant,Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7:
producere ad ignotos (aliquem),Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 75; Auct. Her. 3, 6, 12; cf.:
ignotos fallit, notis est derisui,Phaedr. 1, 11, 2; so,
ignoti, faciem ejus cum intuerentur, contemnebant,Nep. Ages. 8, 1.
In the wild
- IGNOTA Ausonius, Ausonius 1.1
- ignotos Celsus, De Medicina 3.18.p6
- ignotum Pliny the Younger, Letters 8.14.11
- ignota Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.5
- ignota Tacitus, Annales 13.p35
- ignotas Ovid, Fasti 3.160
6 of 366 attestations shown.
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